Semigroups of operators, cosine operator functions, and linear differential equations (Q1813549)

This survey presents a systematic review of the theory of strongly continuous semigroups and cosine functions on Banach spaces as developed from the early beginning up to 1989. It contains the following nine sections: 1. Linear differential equations in Banach spaces 2. Semigroups of operators of the class \(C_ 0\) 3. Cosine and sine operator functions 4. Operator semigroups and cosine operator functions that are continuous in uniform operator topology 5. Almost periodic and periodic semigroups and cosine operator functions 6. Compactness in the theory of operator semigroups and cosine operator functions 7. Uniformly bounded operator semigroups and cosine operator functions 8. Theory of perturbations for operator semigrops and cosine operator functions 9. Adjoint operator semigropus and cosine operator functions. The survey is based on more than 400 publications. The main definitions and results are listed up in a very tight manner. No proofs and no further comments are given. Unfortunately a few shortcomings must be mentioned. For example some notions are used before they are introduced (e.g. positivity, spectral bound, Phillips dual and so on). One may also find some misprints in the English translation which distort the meaning (see e.g. 2.1.17 on p. 1048). But on the whole the article is an excellent and almost complete review of the results of the general theory.